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Hausa Proverbs
20 Hankaka maicla dan woni shi zamma naka. haiikaka, make some one else's child become yours. The hankaka, or crow, is supposed not to have young of its own but to appropriate those of other birds. 21 Gaiwa chi jikkinki. gaiiva, eat your own body. Gaiwa, the mud fish, found under the mud after water has fallen below its usual level ; it is, during the dry weather, supposed to live on the secretions of its own body. 22 Faran tunfafia ba achinki, ba ka chin woni. locust of the tunfafia tree, you are not eaten, you do no one any barm.
